Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

"John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com> writes:

>>>>>> Giorgos Keramidas <gkeramidas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Mercurial is used for Python itself (and quite a few other large projects),
>> so its longevity is not really a very difficult question.  It will be here
>> for at least as long as Python, which Bazaar also uses.
>
> The reason (personally) why I do not want Mercurial to become the Emacs VCS is
> for the same reason I don't like bzr: Because it's not used by a *single*
> project whose VCS I track or contribute to.  I don't know the UI, and have
> never had any reason to know the UI.  I'm not even sure I have Mercurial
> installed!
>
> Meanwhile, the number of Git repositories on my machine today: 457.
>
> I think it's pretty clear that Git has emerged as the "winning" technology, in
> terms of mind-share, adoption, excitement, etc.  I run into new Git projects
> constantly.  Several prominent Haskell projects (such as bytestring) just
> switched from Darcs to Git in order to attract contributors.  Whereas I
> encounter Mercurial and Bazaar, well, never.  Darcs a few times, due to the
> Haskell community, but only ever there.

If you go there, the marketshare or mindshare of emacs is even less than
that of mercurial.  You can stop using emacs right now, and switch to
vim or SublimeText.


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